Reports
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Border policies and protection of the human rights of people in human mobility
Tags Share Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 the United States has used a public health law located at Title 42 of the United States Code to target Black migrants and asylum seekers for summary expulsion and pushbacks across the US-Mexico border. The law, last invoked in the 1920s to bar…
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Human rights groups mark release of new United Nations report on racial discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share The Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights marked the release of a report from the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), analyzing racial discrimination in the United States. The report, informed by evidence the organizations presented at the recent…
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Western Sahara: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting Human Rights Violations Committed by the Kingdom of Morocco
Tags Share As the United Nations Human Rights Council prepares to conduct its fourth cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Kingdom of Morocco, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partners, the Sahrawi Organ against the Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM), the Nushatta Foundation for Media and Human Rights, and Right Livelihood, have submitted the following…
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Shadow Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Tags Share This Shadow Report is submitted for the combined tenth, eleventh, and twelfth periodic review of the United States (“US”) by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (“Committee”). The Report provides selected research and analysis focusing on US immigration and refugee laws, regulations, policies, and practices that subject Black non-citizens to racially…
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Criminal justice as a tool of political repression in Venezuela
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Foro Penal have published a new report illustrating how the Venezuelan government systematically uses the criminal justice system to persecute critical voices, human rights defenders and perceived political opponents. The report, available in both English and Spanish, analyzes more than 480 arbitrary detentions that took place between…
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Six month anniversary Del Rio report details a living legacy of anti-Haitian discrimination in U.S. immigration system
Tags Share Six months after photos revealed mounted Border Patrol agents chasing and grabbing Haitian migrants to prevent them from bringing food to their families, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Haitian Bridge Alliance have released a new report unveiling the full scope of the abuses that occurred in Del Rio, Texas, and in…
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New Practitioner’s Guide for the East African Court of Justice
As part of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ work to support strategic civic space litigation before international and regional mechanisms, we collaborated with the Pan African Lawyers Union to publish the Practitioner’s Guide for the East African Court of Justice. The guide is created for local and international litigants as well as journalists, academics, and…
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Human Rights Abuses in Louisiana ICE Jail
RFK Human Rights’ investigation with ISLA found a horrifying pattern of abusive solitary confinement at ICE’s Pine Prairie detention center in Louisiana.
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Enforced disappearance as a tool of political repression in Venezuela
Tags Share Enforced disappearance has been described as one of the most serious and cruel human rights violations, and is recognized under international law as a crime against humanity. This state-sanctioned practice of detaining people while refusing to acknowledge their fate is particularly alarming because it removes victims from the full protection of the law…
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UN Petition: LGBTQ+ People Arbitrarily Detained in Uganda
Tags Share On March 29, 2020, the government of Uganda raided an LGBTQ+ shelter under the guise of taking COVID-19 prevention measures and arbitrarily arrested 23 people because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. Nineteen of these individuals were denied access to their lawyers for weeks and still remain unlawfully detained at Kitalya Prison…
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Voices From Kumarakapay
Tags Share Following a series of massacres in Kumarakapay and Santa Elena de Uairén in February 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Foro Penal traveled to South America for a fact-finding mission gathering testimonies from Venezuelan survivors and witnesses alongside the Brazilian border. These rural indigenous communities were targeted and attacked by Venezuelan armed…
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Punitive Pretrial Detention in Egypt
Tags Share Ever since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took power in June 2013, Egyptian authorities have increasingly sought to punish dissidents who dare to criticize the government and publish views that differ from the regime’s chosen narrative. In 2018, well over 100 people were arrested for exercising their right to freedom of expression, facing unfounded…
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